Thoughts. Everything you ever wanted to know about insults and their social importance, lots of historical examples, and advice from the Stoics on how to handle insults (in short: ignore them). All in all a quick and interesting read which could have used some tightening up though.

Thoughts. Good thing I read the second book first (which I totally loved), because its predecessor was quite a let-down despite the flowery trademark writing. The story I strangely didn't care about at all which made me abandon the book after 100 pages.

Random quote. "You tell lies for money.""Ah. Aha. My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making."
(p.21)

Thoughts. Not many re-tellings beat a good old fairy tale, yet not many are as cleverly devised like Jackson Pearce's books. With a narrative style that is hard to describe, but utterly mesmerizing, Hänsel & Gretel are brought back to life in a world where witches are not quite what they seem.

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